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LONDON, Sep. 3-- British Prime Minister Theresa May urged her MPs Sunday to support a crucial Brexit bill coming before the parliament this week as politicians return following the summer recess. On Wednesday, May faces her first question time in the Commons since the latest round of negotiations in Brussels over Britain's departure from the European Union. On Thursday, May faces a tough test when members of parliament debate the government's repeal bill, aimed at converting more than 40 years of EU laws into British law when the two part company in March, 2019. May described the Repeal Bill as the single most important step Britain can take to prevent "a cliff-edge for people and businesses". Conservative party managers fear a number of the party's pro-European MPs could threaten the bill by supporting amendments and attacks from the main opposition Labor Party. Following the snap general election in June, May lost her overall majority, making a confidence and supply agreement with the small Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) of Northern Ireland to prop up her administration. It would only take a small number of Conservative rebels to scupper any legislative proposals in parliament. First Secretary of State Damian Green warned a rebellion by some Conservative MPs would increase the threat of a Labor government led by Jeremy Corbyn. Writing in the Sunday Telegraph newspaper Green said: "Few political debates have been as divisive as the European one. I fought as hard as I could on the Remain side, but I believe strongly that as a democrat I should respect the result (of the EU referendum), and that as a politician it is my duty to make the Brexit settlement as good as possible." | 
